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The 1929 silent film Desert Nights uses it to describe a wealthy female crook, and in The Broadway Melody, an angry Bessie Love calls a chorus girl a bimbo. The first use of its female meaning cited in the Oxford English Dictionary is dated 1929, from the scholarly journal American Speech, where the definition was given simply as "a woman".
[5] Dictionary.com added womxn to its dictionary in 2019 with the definition "used, especially in intersectional feminism, as an alternative spelling to avoid the suggestion of sexism perceived in the sequences m-a-n and m-e-n, and to be inclusive of trans and nonbinary people." [6] [7] See also: The dictionary definition of womyn at Wiktionary
“Girls are made to think this should be part of their social dynamic. We don’t say ‘he’s a mean boy.’ It doesn’t carry the same [weight].” Part of the reason girls get the bad rap ...
"Mean Girls" defined the '00s generation. Lindsay Lohan, Lacey Chabert, Amanda Seyfried, and Rachel McAdams as Regina George are hotter than the Burn Book.
The pronunciation MEE-ə was popularized in the 20th century due the use of the Italian possessive word mia, meaning “my”, in popular love song titles such as Rosa Mia, released in 1938, and the 1954 hit song Cara Mia. English speakers who heard the song Cara Mia likely misinterpreted the Mia in the song titles as
Mean Girls is a 2004 American teen comedy film directed by Mark Waters and written by Tina Fey. It stars Lindsay Lohan , Rachel McAdams , Tim Meadows , Ana Gasteyer , Amy Poehler , and Fey. The film follows Cady Heron (Lohan), a naïve teenager who transfers to an American high school after years of homeschooling in Africa.
Mean Girls is over 15 years old, and somehow it’s still one of the most quoted movies in the Hollywood lexicon. It’s the queen bee. It’s the queen bee. The star.
In the 19th century, the meaning was extended to anything soft and furry. Pussy willow, for example, is a name applied to various species in the genus Salix with furry catkins. In thieves' cant the word pussy means a "fur coat". [2] The Oxford English Dictionary gives as the first meaning of the noun: "Chiefly colloq[uial]. A girl or woman ...